Eyes Wide Shut - (Stanley Kubrick Studies) by Nathan Abrams & Georgina Orgill (Hardcover)

About the Book

A fascinating and insightful range of essays from different perspectives reassessing Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, its reception and legacy, twenty years after its initial release. It also features a contribution from someone who worked on the film.

Book Synopsis

Twenty years after its release, Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut remains a complex, visually arresting film about marriage, jealousy, domesticity, adultery, sexual disturbance, and dreams. This was the final enigmatic work from its equally enigmatic creator. It has left an indelible mark on our popular culture and remains as relevant as ever. Much maligned and much misunderstood when it first came out, Eyes Wide Shut has since been the subject of an animated debate and discussion among critics, fans and academics. It has been explored from a wide variety of disciplines and methodological perspectives. This collection brings scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds together with those who worked on the film to explore Eyes Wide Shut's legacy, discuss its impact, and consider its position within Kubrick's oeuvre and the wider visual and socio-political culture.

About the Author

Nathan Abrams is Professor of Film at Bangor University and a founding member of the Stanley Kubrick Network. He has written widely and extensively on Kubrick (as well as film in general). His previous publications include, Stanley Kubrick: Jewish Intellectual (Rutgers UP) and, with Robert Kolker, Eyes Wide Shut: Stanley Kubrick and the Making of His Final Film (OUP, 2019). He also edited the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021) with IQ Hunter and is currently writing a biography of Kubrick to be published by Faber & Faber in 2024.

Georgina Orgill is Senior Archivist at The Stanley Kubrick Archive. She has previously contributed to the Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick (2021), co-edited a volume on A Clockwork Orange, and written on archival cataloguing and access for the teaching and learning journal SPARK (2019).